From the Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia comes this intriguing open-sided house located in Ho Chi Minh City. A vertical garden provides nature’s climate control, through the cooling effect of greenery filtering the breezes — via Home Design Find
Scientists have reversed paralysis in dogs after injecting them with cells grown from the lining of their nose.
The pets had all suffered spinal injuries which prevented them from using their back legs.
The Cambridge University team is cautiously optimistic the technique could eventually have a role in the treatment of human patients.
The study is the first to test the transplant in real-life
injuries rather than laboratory animals.
In the study, funded by the Medical Research Council and published in the neurology journal Brain, the dogs had olfactory ensheathing cells from the lining of their nose removed.
These were grown and expanded for several weeks in the laboratory — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For the last three years, Oechslin has been removing extraneous mechanical parts from another complicated Ochs and Junior watch, the Anno. This has a very clever annual calendar complication that displays the day, date, and month without traditional numerical day or date displays. Instead, the annual calendar shows the date on a large outer spiral, and month and day on smaller inner dot displays. Everything is surprisingly readable, once you get the hang of it at least — via HODINKEE
This morning, the majority of Bill C-11, the copyright reform bill, took effect, marking the most significant changes to Canadian copyright law in decades. While there are still some further changes to come (the Internet provider notice-and-notice rules await a consultation and their own regulations, various provisions related to the WIPO Internet treaties await formal ratification of those treaties), all the consumer oriented provisions are now active — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An alleged rogue surgeon
has been suspended by the General Medical Council after it emerged he might have performed unnecessary or inappropriate
breast operations on more than 1,000 women in Britain.
Ian Stuart Paterson, a breast cancer specialist who worked at NHS and private hospitals in the Midlands from 1994 until last month, is suspected of misdiagnosing at least 450 of the women with breast cancer when they were in fact healthy, and then performing unnecessary lumpectomy
surgery.
He also performed unconventional cleavage-sparing
mastectomies on 700 other women, despite the procedure not being sanctioned in the UK. The technique involved leaving breast tissue around the cleavage area for cosmetic reasons but went against national guidelines which state that no excess tissue should be left behind as this could lead to a return of the cancer.
According to Thompsons solicitors, who are representing almost 100 of the affected patients on a no win, no fee
basis as they launch compensation claims: Many of the women operated on by Mr Paterson using this controversial technique have had to undergo further surgery to remove the excess tissue and unfortunately some have had their cancer return
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
An advertising industry luminary from Southern California was jailed after he tried to board a plane at Oakland International Airport while wearing a watch that resembled a trigger device, a military shirt with built-in tourniquets and oversize shoes with hollowed-out soles, authorities said Friday.
Geoffrey McGann, 49, of Rancho Palos Verdes was arrested at 7.25pm Thursday after Transportation Security Administration agents stopped him at the security checkpoint of Terminal 2, said Sergeant JD Nelson, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The shape-shifting D*Haus by UK designers David Ben Grünberg and Daniel Woolfson morphs and rotates to remain comfortable during all hours of the day, and all seasons. Designed as an homage to mathematical geometries, the experimental residence changes into eight different configurations — via WebUrbanist
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The Buell Blast tends to polarise opinions; Erik Buell himself symbolically crushed one at the end of the production run in 2010. And even some owners have mixed feelings, like Ben McKee of Oxnard, California. The stock Blast did have some issues — namely the frame, wheels, rear suspension, hand and foot controls, exhaust and intake systems, tank and bodywork, riding position, lighting and some of the electrical system,
he says. Other than that, the Blast was an amazing bike.
Ben decided to remove those troublesome items. Finding himself left with just the 492cc motor and not much else, he searched around for a vintage machine with a similar configuration for inspiration. And happened upon the 1911 Excelsior, which had a 500cc de Dion single cylinder engine and also sported a belt final drive — via Bike EXIF
Milan’s Duomo cathedral is putting its gargoyles up for adoption in an attempt to raise money for renovations.
The cathedral is raising money for essential maintenance amid cuts to Italy’s culture budget.
Donors looking for a new idea for their charity dollars can now adopt one of the cathedral’s 135 gargoyles.
For $123,000 donors will have their name engraved under their very own gothic gargoyle — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Czech Republic’s Prague Zoo celebrated the birth of a Malayan Tapir on 6 November. Born to mother Ivana, the male baby is only the second Tapir ever born in the history of the zoo — via ZooBorns
A US district judge has approved a request for class action in a lawsuit against pizza maker Papa John’s International for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of text spam messages.
Seattle law firm Heyrich Kalish McGuigan, representing three Papa John’s customers, alleged that the pizza delivery service has sent 500,000 unwanted text messages to customers. If the court finds that Papa John’s violated the US Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the pizza maker could have to pay damages of $500 per text message, or US$250 million, one of the largest damage awards under the 1991 law, the law firm said.
Many customers complained to Papa John’s that they wanted the text messages to stop, and yet thousands of spam text messages were sent week after week,
Donald Heyrich, attorney for the plaintiffs said in a statement. This should be a wake-up call to advertisers. Consumers do not want spam on their cell phones
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Lucernitas House [01 Arq] is divided into two areas: the private where the bedroom are and the public where the lounge, dining room and services are located. The strategy poses a volume on one level that solves the linear program, allowing all venues have view to Cerro Chena and north orientation — via ArchDaily
NC State researchers have created WiFox, which monitors the amount of traffic on a WiFi channel and grants an access point priority to send its data when it detects that the access point is developing a backlog of data. The amount of priority the access point is given depends on the size of the backlog — the longer the backlog, the higher the priority. In effect, the program acts like a traffic cop, keeping the data traffic moving smoothly in both directions.
The research team tested the program on a real WiFi system in their lab, which can handle up to 45 users. They found that the more users on the system, the more the new program improved data throughput performance. Improvements ranged from 400 percent with approximately 25 users to 700 percent when there were around 45 users.
This translates to the WiFi system being able to respond to user requests an average of four times faster than a WiFi network that does not use WiFox — via redwolf.newsvine.com
After a compelling discussion with her son, Harry, about the source of mysterious noises in their house — Harry argued that the tooth fairy, not mice, was causing the ruckus — creative blogger Kate Benbow decided to craft this ingenious little fairy door
to surprise him one morning — via Design*Sponge
On Instructables, web developer, gamer and DIY creator flaming_pele! shows how to build a giant tentacle monster that went along with his End of the World
Halloween party theme this year. The idea to build a 6 foot tall and 30 foot across tentacle monster emerging from the sewers when he thought about the manhole cover at the corner of his yard — via Laughing Squid
Beautiful original bronze cat portrait of Rosie with swinging mouse in her mouth, designed for use as door knocker or wall sculpture. These were created by artist Derek Bernstein and executed in traditional lost wax bronze casting. Each piece is unique and is signed and numbered. The sculpture is life-size (cat head roughly 4-5″ each way). Can be easily mounted on a front door using brass screws, which we will provide, or on a board for wall mounting — via Etsy
Scientists have created an artificial eye lens out of 800,000 layers of plastic that could revolutionise eye implants and aerial surveillance.
Based on research from 2008 published in journal Optics Express, the new plastic eye closely copies the structure of the human eye and other natural materials including tendons and butterfly wings.
Researchers at the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, working with spin-off lab PolymerPlus, created the lens by stacking up layers of laminated plastic. Weighing a tenth of a traditional lens, the polymer version is up to three times more powerful and, crucially, had the capability to be flexible enough to incrementally change its refraction of light.
The new polymer lens can refract light thousands of different ways because each layer has its own refractive index. This multilayer lens design is called gradient refractive index optics, or GRIN optics. That contrasts to traditional lenses that have a single surface and a single refractive index — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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